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Newswise: Scientists reveal molecular mysteries to control silica scaling in water treatment
Released: 6-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EST
Scientists reveal molecular mysteries to control silica scaling in water treatment
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientist develop synthetic polymers to combat silica scale, the unwanted coating that fouls the surfaces of various engineering systems, such as reverse osmosis desalination water-treatment membranes, heat exchanger components and plant pipelines

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Released: 5-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EST
Hands-on science creates winning conditions for local youth
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

For kids in underserved communities, access to STEM experiences does not come as a given. Candice Halbert, YO-STEM founder and chemist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is working to change this. Halbert devotes her time outside the lab to building STEM opportunities for youth in nearby communities. YO-STEM, or Youth Outreach in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, has served the local community for seven years, and this marks year three for its competitive co-ed robotics teams. Currently, YO-STEM robotics teams, Radium and Gr8ness, rank 16 and 17 out of 145 teams in Tennessee registered for the middle-school robotics competition hosted by VEX on March 8 and 9 in Hendersonville, Tenn. The two teams are also the only Knox County teams in the state’s top 20 for this robotics competition.

Newswise: City without walls: Buildings, energy, psychology overlap for researcher Frank Li
Released: 1-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EST
City without walls: Buildings, energy, psychology overlap for researcher Frank Li
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Fengqui "Frank" Li is a computational developer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who uses his background as an architect to expand the landscape of design for his research into building energy modeling and beyond.

Newswise: NASA uses ORNL supercomputers to plan smooth landing on Mars
Released: 29-Feb-2024 5:05 PM EST
NASA uses ORNL supercomputers to plan smooth landing on Mars
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Since 2019, a team of NASA scientists and their partners have been using NASA’s FUN3D software on supercomputers located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, or OLCF, to conduct computational fluid dynamics, or CFD, simulations of a human-scale Mars lander. The team’s ongoing research project is a first step in determining how to safely land a vehicle with humans onboard onto the surface of Mars.

Newswise: Human-AI coworking
Released: 21-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
Human-AI coworking
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Though artificial intelligence decreases human error in experimentation, human experts outperform AI when identifying causation or working with small data sets. To capitalize on AI and researcher strengths, ORNL scientists, in collaboration with colleagues at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, developed a human-AI collaboration recommender system for improved experimentation performance.

Newswise: UT-Battelle donates $186,000 to support SEEED’s green construction program
Released: 21-Feb-2024 9:10 AM EST
UT-Battelle donates $186,000 to support SEEED’s green construction program
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s managing contractor, UT-Battelle, presented a donation of $186,000 to Socially Equal Energy Efficient Development, or SEEED, to support the nonprofit’s third green solar home as part of their Green Construction Program.

Released: 19-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
ORNL researchers and leaders reflect on AGU23 and future plans for “wide open science”
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A multidirectorate group from ORNL attended AGU23 and came away inspired for the year ahead in geospatial, earth and climate science

Newswise: Chelsea Chen: Breaking barriers in energy storage
Released: 16-Feb-2024 4:45 PM EST
Chelsea Chen: Breaking barriers in energy storage
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Chelsea Chen, a polymer physicist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is studying ion transport in solid electrolytes that could help electric vehicle battery charges last longer.

Newswise: ORNL study projects geothermal heat pumps’ impact on carbon emissions and electrical grid by 2050
Released: 15-Feb-2024 5:05 PM EST
ORNL study projects geothermal heat pumps’ impact on carbon emissions and electrical grid by 2050
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A modeling analysis led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory gives the first detailed look at how geothermal energy can relieve the electric power system and reduce carbon emissions if widely implemented across the United States within the next few decades.

Newswise: CyberShake study uses Summit supercomputer to investigate earthquake hazards
Released: 12-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
CyberShake study uses Summit supercomputer to investigate earthquake hazards
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at the Statewide California Earthquake Center, or SCEC, are unraveling the mysteries of earthquakes by using physics-based computational models running on high-performance computing systems at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The team’s findings will provide a better understanding of seismic hazards in the Golden State.

Newswise: New process allows full recovery of starting materials from tough polymer composites
Released: 8-Feb-2024 2:20 PM EST
New process allows full recovery of starting materials from tough polymer composites
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In a win for chemistry, inventors at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed a closed-loop path for synthesizing an exceptionally tough carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer and later recovering all of its starting materials.

Newswise: ORNL's Jason DeGraw named ASHRAE Fellow
Released: 7-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
ORNL's Jason DeGraw named ASHRAE Fellow
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers, or ASHRAE, selected Jason DeGraw, a researcher with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as one of 23 members elevated to Fellow during its 2024 winter conference.

Newswise: Deciphering dynamics of electric charge
Released: 6-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
Deciphering dynamics of electric charge
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Research led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Marti Checa and Liam Collins has pioneered a groundbreaking approach, described in the journal Nature Communications, toward understanding the behavior of an electric charge at the microscopic level.

Newswise: ORNL’s Sholl elected to National Academy of Engineering
Released: 5-Feb-2024 5:05 PM EST
ORNL’s Sholl elected to National Academy of Engineering
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

David Sholl, director of the Transformational Decarbonization Initiative at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions in addressing large-scale chemical separation challenges, including carbon dioxide capture, using quantitative materials modeling.

Newswise: New method monitors grid stability with hydropower project signals
Released: 5-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
New method monitors grid stability with hydropower project signals
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have developed an algorithm to predict electric grid stability using signals from pumped storage hydropower projects.

Newswise: Reaping agricultural emissions solutions
Released: 2-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Reaping agricultural emissions solutions
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL climate modeling expertise contributed to a project that assessed global emissions of ammonia from croplands now and in a warmer future, while also identifying solutions tuned to local growing conditions.

Newswise: Grid electronics research to bridge gap to cleaner, more reliable power
Released: 1-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Grid electronics research to bridge gap to cleaner, more reliable power
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are looking for a happy medium to enable the grid of the future, filling a gap between high and low voltages for power electronics technology that underpins the modern U.S. electric grid.

Newswise: Employee-led giving at ORNL nets $967,871 for area nonprofits
Released: 31-Jan-2024 10:05 PM EST
Employee-led giving at ORNL nets $967,871 for area nonprofits
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Employees of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory contributed over $828,000 to local nonprofits through the lab’s employee giving programs in 2023.

Newswise: EPB, ORNL announce plans for research collaborative focused on energy resilience, quantum technology
Released: 26-Jan-2024 4:05 PM EST
EPB, ORNL announce plans for research collaborative focused on energy resilience, quantum technology
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Building on $180 million in joint energy-related research, EPB and Oak Ridge National Laboratory marked 10 years of collaboration Friday with the announcement of the new Collaborative for Energy Resilience and Quantum Science, or CERQS.

Newswise: ORNL wins five Federal Laboratory Consortium awards
Released: 24-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
ORNL wins five Federal Laboratory Consortium awards
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers, staff members and licensees from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory received top honors in the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s annual awards competition for excellence in technology transfer, excellence in technology transfer innovation, outstanding researcher and regional technology transfer.

Newswise: Corning uses neutrons to reveal how ‘atomic rings’ help  predict glass performance
Released: 23-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Corning uses neutrons to reveal how ‘atomic rings’ help predict glass performance
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Conducting neutron scattering experiments at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL and Corning scientists discovered that as the number of smaller, less-stable atomic rings in a glass increases, the instability, or liquid fragility, of the glass also increases.

Newswise: Armor for steel
Released: 18-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Armor for steel
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers demonstrated that stainless steel and other metal alloys coated with hexagonal boron nitride, or hBN, exhibit non-stick or low-friction qualities along with improved long-term protection against harsh corrosion and high-temperature oxidation in air.

Newswise: Fungal ‘bouncers’ patrol plant-microbe relationship
Released: 17-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Fungal ‘bouncers’ patrol plant-microbe relationship
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A new computational framework created by Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers is accelerating their understanding of who’s in, who’s out, who’s hot and who’s not in the soil microbiome, where fungi often act as bodyguards for plants, keeping friends close and foes at bay.

Newswise: Wagner named associate laboratory director for Energy Science and Technology
Released: 16-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Wagner named associate laboratory director for Energy Science and Technology
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has named Robert Wagner associate laboratory director for the Energy Science and Technology Directorate, effective Feb. 1.

Newswise: Storytelling plants may help find human remains
Released: 3-Jan-2024 3:05 PM EST
Storytelling plants may help find human remains
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jack Orebaugh, a forensic anthropology major at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, used his internship at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to find better ways to search for lost and deceased people using cameras and drones.

Newswise: Revolutionizing resource renewal: Scaling up sustainable recycling for critical materials
Released: 3-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Revolutionizing resource renewal: Scaling up sustainable recycling for critical materials
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at ORNL have developed a technique for recovering and recycling critical materials that has garnered special recognition from a peer-reviewed materials journal and received a new phase of funding for research and development.

Newswise: Tracking roadway savings from coast to coast
Released: 20-Dec-2023 3:05 PM EST
Tracking roadway savings from coast to coast
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have identified the most energy-efficient 2024 model year vehicles available in the United States, including electric and hybrids, in the latest edition of the Department of Energy’s Fuel Economy Guide.

Newswise: Computational scientists generate molecular datasets at extreme scale
Released: 20-Dec-2023 11:05 AM EST
Computational scientists generate molecular datasets at extreme scale
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team of computational scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has generated and released datasets of unprecedented scale that provide the ultraviolet visible spectral properties of over 10 million organic molecules.

Newswise: Innovation Crossroads puts a charge in battery startup, accelerating path from lab to market
Released: 20-Dec-2023 10:05 AM EST
Innovation Crossroads puts a charge in battery startup, accelerating path from lab to market
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Rajan Kumar, an engineer and the chief executive officer of Ateios Systems, is a Cohort 2022 fellow in Innovation Crossroads, or IC, a two-year DOE Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program node that helps innovators in energy and advanced manufacturing technologies take their ideas from research to the marketplace.

Newswise: Alexey Serov’s inventions pave the way for green hydrogen fuel cells
Released: 19-Dec-2023 10:05 AM EST
Alexey Serov’s inventions pave the way for green hydrogen fuel cells
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

It would be a challenge for any scientist to match Alexey Serov’s rate of inventions related to green hydrogen fuel.

Newswise: Custom software speeds up, stabilizes high-profile ocean model
Released: 14-Dec-2023 4:05 PM EST
Custom software speeds up, stabilizes high-profile ocean model
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Most modern ocean models focus on two categories of waves: a barotropic system, which has a fast wave propagation speed, and a baroclinic system, which has a slow wave propagation speed. To help address the challenge of simulating these two modes simultaneously, a team from DOE’s Oak Ridge, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new solver algorithm that reduces the total run time of the Model for Prediction Across Scales-Ocean, or MPAS-Ocean, E3SM’s ocean circulation model, by 45%.

Newswise: Metal steam turbine blade shows cutting-edge potential for critical, large 3D-printed parts
Released: 12-Dec-2023 10:05 AM EST
Metal steam turbine blade shows cutting-edge potential for critical, large 3D-printed parts
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory became the first to 3D-print large rotating steam turbine blades for generating energy in power plants.

Newswise: Time-tested magnesium oxide: Unveiling CO2 absorption dynamics
Released: 8-Dec-2023 12:15 PM EST
Time-tested magnesium oxide: Unveiling CO2 absorption dynamics
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Magnesium oxide is a promising material for capturing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere and injecting it deep underground to limit the effects of climate change. But making the method economical will require discovering the speed at which carbon dioxide is absorbed and how environmental conditions affect the chemical reactions involved.

Newswise: ORNL, Caterpillar collaborate to advance methanol use in marine engines
Released: 7-Dec-2023 12:05 PM EST
ORNL, Caterpillar collaborate to advance methanol use in marine engines
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Caterpillar Inc. have entered into a cooperative research and development agreement, or CRADA, to investigate using methanol as an alternative fuel source for four-stroke internal combustion marine engines. The collaboration supports efforts to decarbonize the marine industry, a hard-to-electrify transportation sector.

Newswise: Neutrons score electrochemical win for carbon-neutral ammonia
Released: 6-Dec-2023 10:05 AM EST
Neutrons score electrochemical win for carbon-neutral ammonia
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists from Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are turning air into fertilizer without leaving a carbon footprint.

Newswise: Cable-Dunlap, Chi, Smith and Thornton named ORNL Corporate Fellows
Released: 5-Dec-2023 1:05 PM EST
Cable-Dunlap, Chi, Smith and Thornton named ORNL Corporate Fellows
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Four researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named ORNL Corporate Fellows in recognition of significant career accomplishments and continued leadership in their scientific fields.

Newswise: ORNL engineer Karen White honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
Released: 4-Dec-2023 3:10 PM EST
ORNL engineer Karen White honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Karen White, who works in ORNL’s Neutron Science Directorate, has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award.White, who manages the section that provides the machine controls, computing infrastructure, and protection systems across all neutron science technical areas, received the award during the biennial International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems, held October 7-13, 2013, in Cape Town, South Africa.

Newswise: Researchers decode aqueous amino acid’s potential for direct air capture of CO2
Released: 4-Dec-2023 11:05 AM EST
Researchers decode aqueous amino acid’s potential for direct air capture of CO2
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have made a significant stride toward understanding a viable process for direct air capture, or DAC, of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This DAC process is in early development with the aim of achieving negative emissions, where the amount of carbon dioxide removed from the envelope of gases surrounding Earth exceeds the amount emitted.

Newswise: Four scientists receive Battelle Distinguished Inventor recognition
Released: 2-Dec-2023 12:05 PM EST
Four scientists receive Battelle Distinguished Inventor recognition
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Since UT-Battelle began managing ORNL in 2000, 97 ORNL researchers have reached this milestone

Newswise: ORNL supports executive order for safe, secure and trustworthy AI
Released: 30-Nov-2023 6:05 PM EST
ORNL supports executive order for safe, secure and trustworthy AI
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In October, President Biden signed an executive order outlining how the United States will promote safe, secure and trustworthy AI.

Newswise: ORNL joins consortium to tackle scientific AI’s next great milestone
Released: 29-Nov-2023 2:05 PM EST
ORNL joins consortium to tackle scientific AI’s next great milestone
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has joined a global consortium of scientists from federal laboratories, research institutes, academia and industry to address the challenges of building large-scale artificial intelligence systems and advancing trustworthy and reliable AI for scientific discovery.

Newswise: Owner of US heavy rare earth mine licenses ORNL separation technology
Released: 29-Nov-2023 10:05 AM EST
Owner of US heavy rare earth mine licenses ORNL separation technology
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Caldera Holding has licensed ORNL's membrane solvent extraction technique to separate rare earth elements in mined ore. The company also owns the Pea Ridge iron mine in Missouri. The mine is among the first in America shown to have relatively high amounts of dysprosium — critical for permanent magnets.

Newswise: Greener solution powers new method for lithium-ion battery recycling
Released: 29-Nov-2023 10:05 AM EST
Greener solution powers new method for lithium-ion battery recycling
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Used lithium-ion batteries from cell phones, laptops and a growing number of electric vehicles are piling up, but options for recycling them remain limited mostly to burning or chemically dissolving shredded batteries.

Newswise: Manard named recipient of 2023 JAAS Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Released: 28-Nov-2023 1:05 PM EST
Manard named recipient of 2023 JAAS Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Benjamin Manard, an analytical chemist in the Chemical Sciences Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been selected for the 2023 Emerging Investigator Lectureship from the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.

Newswise: New carbon material sets energy-storage record, likely to advance supercapacitors
Released: 21-Nov-2023 5:05 PM EST
New carbon material sets energy-storage record, likely to advance supercapacitors
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Guided by machine learning, chemists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed a record-setting carbonaceous supercapacitor material that stores four times more energy than the best commercial material.

Newswise: ORNL scientists contribute Earth system expertise to Fifth National Climate Assessment
Released: 20-Nov-2023 10:25 AM EST
ORNL scientists contribute Earth system expertise to Fifth National Climate Assessment
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used their knowledge of complex ecosystem processes, energy systems, human dynamics, computational science and Earth-scale modeling to inform the nation’s latest National Climate Assessment, which draws attention to vulnerabilities and resilience opportunities in every region of the country.

Newswise: Seven ORNL scientists among world’s top 1% most-cited researchers
Released: 17-Nov-2023 2:05 PM EST
Seven ORNL scientists among world’s top 1% most-cited researchers
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Seven scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named among the world’s most influential researchers on the 2023 Highly Cited Researchers list, produced by Clarivate, a data analytics firm that specializes in scientific and academic research.

Newswise: Three-pronged approach discerns qualities of quantum spin liquids
Released: 16-Nov-2023 2:05 PM EST
Three-pronged approach discerns qualities of quantum spin liquids
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In 1973, physicist Phil Anderson hypothesized that the quantum spin liquid, or QSL, state existed on some triangular lattices, but he lacked the tools to delve deeper. Fifty years later, a team led by researchers associated with the Quantum Science Center headquartered at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has confirmed the presence of QSL behavior in a new material with this structure, KYbSe2.

Newswise: Super construction at super scale: How ORNL built a new home for Frontier
Released: 14-Nov-2023 1:05 PM EST
Super construction at super scale: How ORNL built a new home for Frontier
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Making room for the world’s first exascale supercomputer took some supersized renovations.Frontier’s 74 cabinets cover more than 7,300 square feet in the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s data center located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. That’s a space roughly 1,700 square feet larger than that occupied by its high-speed predecessor Summit and more than three times the size of the average American home for a machine that runs on 30 million watts of electricity.

Newswise: Super speeds for super AI: Frontier sets new pace for artificial intelligence
Released: 14-Nov-2023 12:05 PM EST
Super speeds for super AI: Frontier sets new pace for artificial intelligence
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The team that built Frontier set out to break the exascale barrier, but the supercomputer’s record-breaking didn’t stop there.“The exascale number marks a major milestone itself, but it also marks the beginning of a new chapter in high-speed computing,” said Feiyi Wang, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory computer scientist who leads research into artificial intelligence and analytics.



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